Dates: Political

Question 1

Formation of PG and PS

Answer 1

March 1917

Question 2

Abdication of Tsar

Answer 2

2nd March 1917

Question 3

Return of Lenin and April theses

Answer 3

April 1917

Question 4

Kornilov coup

Answer 4

June 1917

Question 5

Bolshevik seizure of power

Answer 5

25 October 1917

Question 6

Decrees on land and peace

Answer 6

1917

Question 7

Formation of Sovrakom

Answer 7

1917

Question 8

Formation of Cheka

Answer 8

Dec 1917

Question 9

Constituent assembly forcibly dissolved

Answer 9

January 1918

Question 10

Start of Civil war

Answer 10

April 1918

Question 11

First soviet constitution

Answer 11

1918

Question 12

10th party conference

Answer 12

1921

Question 13

Ban on factions

Answer 13

1921

Question 14

Stalin elected general secretary

Answer 14

1922

Question 15

Lemons testament written

Answer 15

1922

Question 16

Lenin’s death

Answer 16

1924

Question 17

Zinoviev, Kamenev and Trotsky removed from Politburo

Answer 17

1926

Question 18

Defeat of Left Opposition

Answer 18

1927

Question 19

Defeat of Right opposition

Answer 19

1929

Question 20

Assassination of Kirov

Answer 20

1934

Question 21

Show trial of Zinoviev, Kamenev and others

Answer 21

1936

Question 22

Yezhov appointed head of NKVD

Answer 22

1936

Question 23

Stalin constitution

Answer 23

1936

Question 24

Execution of Marshal Tukhachevsky and Red army officers

Answer 24

1937

Question 25

Show trial of Bulgarian, Rykob and others

Answer 25

1938

Question 26

Yezhov replaced by Beria

Answer 26

1938

Question 27

Emergence of legislation

Answer 27

1941

Question 28

Leningrad affair

Answer 28

1949

Question 29

Doctors plot and new political purges

Answer 29

1952

Question 30

Death of Stalin

Answer 30

1953